Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 29 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. Limited to 500 copies bound in publisher's vellum with gilt design and lettering and signed by the artist Edmund Dulac this being copy number 83. Frontispiece and an additional 39 tipped in color plates. Gilt top foredge. Vellum boards are bowed. Lacking the ribbon. Scattered foxing to the text, not the plates. Some fading to the spine. Bit of discoloration to the edges of the front cover.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine and tight copy bound in full vellum. Limited Edition of 500 copies of which this is no. 96, Signed by Edmund Dulac. Forty tipped in color plates in perfect condition. Ribbon is still attached. A very nice copy and much nicer than usual. (See Pict's).
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 500 numbered copies signed by Dulac. xxiv, 143 (1) pp. + 40 tipped-in color plates. Hardcover, bound in full vellum. The binding spotted, lacking ties, boards slightly splayed as usual; the text with light foxing at the extremities, generally unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare 1908 antiquarian copy of The Tempest, covered in full ivory vellum. From a limited edition of five hundred copies, numbered and signed by the artist Edmund Dulac, of which this is No. 231. Very large folio 11.5" x 8.5" x 2"; 144pp. Both rare and scarce. Ivory full-vellum-covered hardboards; vellum being specially processed from calfskin and proven to be able to last for 1,000 years. Ornate gilt lettering and artistic design on front and spine. Beautiful and ornate previous owner bookplate inside front board. Boards are lightly warped, slightly spotted and darkened in some areas. (see photos) Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked, with heavy-weight paper stock, very heavily deckled edges. Lightly tanning throughout but no age speckling. Features 40 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, mounted on dark green art paper and covered with letter press captioned paper guards. This 114-year-old book is a very rare and exceptional presentation of Shakespeare's Tempest; a gorgeous collectible. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied.
Seller: Fine Old Books Coastside, Montara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1614.51 + shipping
Description: First Heath Robinson edition, signed limited issue, number 66 of 350 copies, signed by the artist. Simon Heneage in the ODNB describes Heath Robinson's illustrations for this volume as "atmospheric". A contemporary review in The Graphic noted that "the new edition of Twelfth Night. has the advantage of the poetic insight and decorative skill which mark Mr. W. Heath Robinson's serious work. This year he shows a considerable advance in freedom and grace upon the book to which we refer. The coloured drawings. are instinct with the decorative spirit of the play". The Graphic, 24 October 1908, p. 492. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated title page, colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Heath Robinson. Natural variation to vellum, front cover slightly bowed, minor split at head of front hinge, some light soiling, lacking ribbons: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1665.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. 1 p.l., xxiv, 143, [1]. 40 tipped-in colour plates after drawings by W. Heath Robinson. tissue guards with legends. woodcut decoration on title. original gilt-stamped vellum, t.e.g., others uncut (vellum little soiled, covers bowed, lacking ties). First Edition Illustrated by Heath Robinson, Deluxe Issue Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the Artist.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1995.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1908. Very good condition with no wrapper. Signed limited edition of 350 copies. Printed on handmade paper and bound in white vellum, gilt. 40 superb tipped-in colour plates on dark green mounts with captioned tissue-guards. 143 pages. Large, heavy format. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 53. A few small, light marks to covers. Silk ties are missing. Foxing to textblock and to some page margins. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom